Choosing speakers

[jhermance]

Ok sounds odd but the girlfriend is going to buy me a set of speakers for christmas just trying to figure out what set to get. This is the list i came up with so far.
B & W CDM1NT
Polk Lsi9
Sonus Faber Concertino's
JmLab Electra 906 or Cobalt 806
Any thoughts guys.

[Emlyn]

All good, but all different in their own way. My personal preference choice would be the Electra 906's by a wide margin, but only if used with a tube integrated amp (Jolida, etc) as a starting point.

[venomclan]

Ok sounds odd but the girlfriend is going to buy me a set of speakers for christmas just trying to figure out what set to get. This is the list i came up with so far.
B & W CDM1NT
Polk Lsi9
Sonus Faber Concertino's
JmLab Electra 906 or Cobalt 806
Any thoughts guys.


It really depends on your music preference. I have the CDM1NT's used as surrounds. Very good speaker for everything except hard rock. The Polk's would probably be the best bang for the buck. Sonus Faber are excellent but very expensive. I think the B&W's or Polks would give you most of thier performance for a fraction of the price. I am not familiar with the JM's so I cannot comment. One thing for sure, they all like nice clean power, especially the Polks at 4ohm.
Venom

[Zero]

http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?spkrmoni&1161310799

There ya go.

[dorokusai]

That's a loaded question....try and buy something noone has, would be my suggestion. If you follow the pack all the time, you'll never get anywhere.

[jhermance]

Well in that case i think i may get a set of cain & cain abby's they look cool and the reviews sound pretty good. Has anyone personally heard them. I am going to be trying out a set of CDM1NT's in a couple of days a friend has a set.

[dorokusai]

I'm sure BMDP will drop in, in regards to the Abby....get ready for tubes.